From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 8 07:54:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA00350 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA00343 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA12932; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:54:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:54:05 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9610081454.AA12932@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: dg@root.com Cc: Luigi Rizzo , wollman@freefall.freebsd.org (Garrett Wollman), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c ip_output.c raw_ip.c In-Reply-To: <199610072111.OAA20837@root.com> References: <199610071934.UAA28629@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199610072111.OAA20837@root.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > In my opinion it should be removed. The only reason one might > keep it would be as sort of "reference" for implementing large IP > addresses (TUBA = "TCP/UDP with Big Addresses"), but the TUBA > proposal is clearly not what the Internet is going to in the > future. I think the code is dead weight and only serves to make the > 'real' code more difficult to follow and maintain. I would be quite happy to see it go. However, if Paul Traina or his company is interested in it, then I would keep it around so long as it's maintained. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick